Parent Advisory Council Meeting March 8 th , 2016 Welcome - Thank you for being here tonight!
What is the Georgia Milestones Assessment System? • The Georgia Milestones Assessment System (Georgia Milestones) is a comprehensive assessment system spanning grades 3 through high school. • Georgia Milestones measures how well students have learned the knowledge and skills outlined in the state-adopted content standards in English Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies. • Students in grades 3 through 8 will take End-of-Grade (EOG) assessments in each content area, while high school students will take End-of-Course (EOC) assessments for each of the eight courses designated by the State Board of Education.
What is the purpose of Georgia Milestones? • Georgia Milestones is designed to provide information about how well students are mastering the state adopted content standards in the core content areas of English Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies. • Importantly, Georgia Milestones is designed to provide students with critical information about their own achievement and their readiness for their next level of learning—be it the next grade, the next course, or the next endeavor (college or career).
What types of questions will a student see on the Georgia Milestones Assessment? • open-ended (constructed-response) items in English Language Arts and Mathematics (all grades and courses) • a writing component (in response to passages read by students) at every grade level and course within the English Language Arts assessments • nationally norm-referenced items in all content areas and courses to complement the Georgia criterion-referenced information and to provide a national comparison • multiple-choice (selected response) items in all content areas and courses.
Open-Ended/Constructed Response 5 th Grade ELA Example The Truth of the Matter As the sun sets over a beautiful western town, a handsome young man gazes at a lovely young woman. Their clothes are neatly pressed and neither has a hair out of place. It’s a perfect scene. There is only one problem. It is too good to be true. The scene is from the movie The Longest Trail. It is a beautifully filmed movie with talented actors, but it does not show what life was really like in the 1800s. As the movie begins, we learn that a group of cowboys has been traveling on a cattle trail for many days in the late winter. Their goal is to transport cattle from a city in southern Texas to a city in Oklahoma. The first scene takes place as the group crosses the Red River. The river is flowing quickly, and there are some tense moments as the cowboys attempt to get their horses and cattle across. However, they all make it across without a scratch, and they laugh as they head back to the trail. The truth is that the life of a cowboy was much more dangerous and exhausting than the movie shows. The cowboys in the movie laughed that their clothes and horses were wet. But real cowboys knew that wearing wet clothes in the winter was dangerous and could cause them to suffer from a condition called hypothermia. Their body temperatures could drop, and they could get sick or die. The cowboys in the movie continue on down the trail. At night, they tell stories around the campfire and then drift off to sleep. Real cowboys, however, never really got a good night’s rest. Instead, they spent a large part of the night keeping watch. They had to make sure their animals did not wander off, were not attacked by predators, and were not stolen by other cowboys. The next day, the cowboys in the movie get up and begin to prepare for the day ahead. However, Joshua, the main character, decides that he is going to return home to Texas. He misses his wife and his family and wants nothing more than to see them again. He explains to the other cowboys that he must leave them or regret the journey forever. Then he turns his horse around and heads south. Though the situation makes for a great Hollywood story, it is completely unrealistic. Cowboys sacrificed a great deal and often had to leave family behind. Cowboys were paid poorly, and they would never leave a job without completing it. If they did, they would not get paid at all. Joshua returns to his home in Texas and finds his beautiful wife just as the sun is setting. In real life, Joshua would have found it very hard to make the trip back to Texas alone. Cowboys faced many obstacles on their travels, such as falling off their horses or running into wild animals. Traveling alone meant there was no one to give the cowboy aid if he had an injury or got sick. Though many parts of the movie were beautifully filmed, the movie was simply not realistic. The Longest Trail should be called The Longest Trail Away From the Truth.
Open-Ended/Constructed Response 5 th Grade ELA Example
Writing Component 5 th Grade ELA Example
Norm-Referenced Items • Norm-Referenced Test items will yield a national comparison; may or may not be aligned to state-adopted content standards. • All norm-referenced items will be selected response (multiple choice) questions for 5 th Graders.
Selected Response/Multiple Choice 5 th Grade ELA/Math Examples B D
Selected Response/Multiple Choice 5 th Grade Science/Social Studies Examples C C
When is the Georgia Milestone for CES (3-5)? English/ English/ Mathematics Science Social Studies Language Arts Day 1 Language Arts Day 2 3 rd & 5 th Grades 3 rd & 5 th Grades 3 rd & 5 th Grades 3 rd & 5 th Grades 3 rd & 5 th Grades English/ English/ Mathematics Science Social Studies Language Arts Day 1 Language Arts Day 2 4 th Grade 4 th Grade 4 th Grade 4 th Grade 4 th Grade
Test Breakdown English/Language Arts – Will be given over the course of 2 days – Consists of 3 sections – Section 1 and Section 2 will be given on the first day and each student will be allowed up to 75 minutes to complete each section. – Section 3 will be given on the second day and each student will be allowed up to 90 minutes to complete the section. – Consists of 60 total test items: • 50 Selected Response • 3 Constructed Response/Extended Constructed Response • 1 Extended Writing Response • 6 Field Test Items* *Field Test Items do NOT effect a student’s score.
Test Breakdown Mathematics – Consists of 2 sections – Section 1 and Section 2 will be given on the third day and each student will be allowed up to 85 minutes to complete each section. – Consists of 73 total test items: • 61 Selected Response • 3 Constructed Response /Extended Constructed Response • 9 Field Test Items* *Field Test Items do NOT effect a student’s score.
Test Breakdown Science – Consists of 2 sections – Section 1 and Section 2 will be given on the fourth day and each student will be allowed up to 70 minutes to complete each section. – Consists of 75 total test items: • 65 Selected Response • 10 Field Test Items* *Field Test Items do NOT effect a student’s score.
Test Breakdown Social Studies – Consists of 2 sections – Section 1 and Section 2 will be given on the fifth day and each student will be allowed up to 70 minutes to complete each section. – Consists of 75 total test items: • 65 Selected Response • 10 Field Test Items* *Field Test Items do NOT effect a student’s score.
Milestone Practice Resources • Georgia Milestones Official Practice Site – Chrome Users: http://www.gaexperienceonline.com/ – Other Browsers: https://wbte.drcedirect.com/GA/portals/ga • GOFAR (Georgia Online Formative Assessment Resource) – https://gofar.gadoe.org/gofarweb • Study Island – https://app.studyisland.com/cfw/login • iReady (Grades 3-5) – https://login.i-ready.com/
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